Here's How Great Star Wars Would Be in Virtual Reality

You wanna be an X-Wing pilot? Of course you wanna be an X-Wing pilot. Now you can get a better taste of that fantasy than ever before.

This is a trailer for Star Wars VR. It's not real. It's not official. And it's more than likely it'll never actually exist in this form. But man does it ever prove how something like it just has to happen.

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Built by HammerheadVR Studios in Unreal Engine 4, this trailer was produced by two artist in just two weeks. It's a little scripted demo is designed to work with the Oculus Rift, so you have to imagine what this would all be like if it was right in front of you in 3D, being beamed into both of your eyes. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like Hammerhead has released an actual Oculus-ready video feed, or even a stereoscopic version you could watch in something like Google Cardboard or even by crossing your eyes.

Disney is not likely to let such an awesome but non-official game such as this exist, so don't get your hopes up for this fan-made affair to advance beyond a fantastic proof-of-concept trailer for a concept that really shouldn't have to be proven. The good news is that Disney has seen fit to start going down this road a bit; the new (and official) Star Wars Battle Pod arcade game is similar, and super dope by all accounts. Hopefully VR is next on the todo list. I have some Death Stars to explode.

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